American Medical Center (Denver, Colo.)
Biography
Phone call, 2-22-88 to AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, director's office (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society; f. 1904; name changed 1954 to American Medical Center; in 1970's renamed AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital; in late 1970's/early 1980 reorg. as AMC Cancer Research Center; independent, nonprofit, research organ.; small hospital attached but function is primarily research) AMC Cancer Research Center Web site, Aug. 18, 2003 (In 1904, the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) was founded in Denver; JCRS evolved into AMC Cancer Research Center) NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Seattle Ladies Auxiliary. Records, 1924-1978 (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society; operated sanatorium nr. Denver, Colo., provided free care for tuberculosis patients; name changed in 1954 to American Medical Center; Denver; began accepting cancer patients)
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Bookbinding and Print Shop of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1920-1940
Interior of the bookbinding and print shop room of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). A large group of men and women work on various tasks throughout the room. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients founded in 1904 by a group of physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.
Bookbinding and Print Shop of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1920-1940
Bookbinding Department of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1930-1940
Box 1, 1957-1985
Collection contains board of trustee's minutes, committee minutes, reports, AMC By-laws, name plates, posters, publications, programs, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the AMC Cancer Research Center from 1957 through 2012. The American Medical Center is the successor to JCRS. Additionally, some older material relating to JCRS is also in the collection dating back to 1904.
Box 2, 1985-1992
AMC Cancer Research Center was the successor to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. Box contains AMC Cancer Research Center Board of Trustees minutes, committee minutes, reports and associated materials.
Campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1979 September
The grounds of Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) on it's 75th Anniversary. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado.
Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, circa 1950-1970
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.
Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970
Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970
Cancer Treatments - AMC, after 1955
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.
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- Archival Object 207
- Collection 2
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- Jews 197
- Photographs 197
- Colorado 194
- Denver (Colo.) 188
- Hospitals 183
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 177
- Sanatoriums 176
- Tuberculosis 173
- West Colfax (Denver, Colo.) 163
- Spivak (Colo.) 155
- Patients 65
- Sanatoriums -- Colorado 49
- Edgewater (Colo.) 48
- Buildings 32
- Entertainment events 31
- Nurses 27
- Women 25
- Charities 23
- Men 22
- Physicians 22
- Parties 16
- Recreation 16
- Costume 15
- Cancer treatment and research 14
- Dedications (Ceremonies) 14
- Cancer 12
- Dinners and dining 12
- Anniversaries 10
- Drama 10
- Synagogues 10
- Tents 10
- Rehabilitation 9
- Plaques (Flat objects) 8
- Dairy farms 7
- Kitchens 7
- Halloween 6
- Printing plants 6
- Treatment and prognosis 6
- X-rays 6
- Beds 5
- Cows 5
- Entertainers 5
- Barns 4
- Corporate minutes 4
- Jewish physicians 4
- Medicine 4
- Reading 4
- Teachers 4
- Boys 3
- Food 3
- Jewish women 3
- Musicians 3
- New York (N.Y.) 3
- Occupational therapy 3
- Torah scrolls 3
- Boards of directors 2
- Bookbinders 2
- Butchers 2
- Dentists 2
- Indigenous peoples of North America 2
- Jewish Refugees 2
- Kosher food 2
- Meat industry and trade 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical instruments and apparatus 2
- Medical personnel and patient 2
- Nursing 2
- Paste-up (Printing) 2
- Physical therapy 2
- Picnics 2
- Printers 2
- Rabbis 2
- Radiotherapy 2
- Snapshots 2
- Stores, Retail 2
- Thermotherapy 2
- Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- Colorado -- Denver 2
- Women patients 2
- Albums (Books) 1
- Animals 1
- Architectural drawings (Visual works) 1
- Authors 1
- Awards 1
- Band musicians 1
- Blackface entertainers 1
- Books and reading 1
- Buildings -- Design and construction 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Cancer -- Research -- Colorado 1
- Comedians 1
- Construction drawings 1
- Cooks 1
- Cookware 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Corn 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dance 1
- Dining rooms 1
- Education 1
- Ephemera (General) 1 + ∧ less